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The world's newest nation, South Sudan, will be one year old next week. The country is a long way from changing its status as one of the poorest and most illiterate in the world. Yet some find reason to celebrate.

The armed struggle in South Sudan looks like an ethnic conflict, but BBC reporter James Copnal says, at heart, it is about political power. And he sees the fighting as an attempt by both sides to garner a stronger negotiating position.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is the latest in a string of international officials trekking to South Sudan to try and pressure rival leaders to call a halt to their four-month long civil war. Reporter Andrew Green is in the capital Juba and tells host Marco Werman that he sees a sliver of hope in efforts to end the fighting.